School burglary alleged in arrest of Oak Ridge man

Thursday

Jul 24, 2014 at 1:22 PM

by Russel Langley/The Oak Ridger

Anthony Darrell Yancy, 45, of 275 Wilberforce Ave., was arrested on Monday and charged with burglary after a school security camera reportedly caught him entering Oak Ridge High School and then a girls’ locker room.According to documents filed by Oak Ridge police with the Anderson County General Sessions Court, a burglary was reported to ORHS vice principal Bradley Herrell. Herrell called the Oak Ridge Police Department after he allegedly saw on security camera footage Yancy enter the building through the “WC 100 side door” and then enter the girls’ locker room.According to the court documents, no other people entered the locker room between the time the girls cross-country track team left at 8:50 a.m. and returned at 11 a.m. Three cellular telephones were reported missing from three separate juveniles, according to the court documents.The police stated in the documents that one of the cell phones was found in the mail slot in the hall of the First United Methodist Church at about 2:30 p.m. Monday. At roughly the same time, an officer located the shirt allegedly worn by Yancy, as seen on the security camera video, in an adjacent mail slot at the church. These items were found after Yancy’s arrest at about 2:15 p.m. at Munsey Pharmacy, police stated in the documents. An officer wrote that at the time of his arrest, Yancy was wearing a shirt taken from a display in the hall of the First United Methodist Church.The officer wrote that “the cell phone cases had been removed and not recovered.”Yancy was booked into the Anderson County jail on charges of burglary and theft.He remained in jail Wednesday afternoon, with no bond listed on the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office website.Russel Langley can be reached at (865) 220-5514.